Quotes of the day

posted at 10:37 pm on March 14, 2012 by Allahpundit

“Gingrich no longer says he can capture the 1,144 delegates required to wrap up the Republican nomination. Instead, he now speaks frankly about a new plan: Keep Romney from getting to 1,144 by the end of the GOP primary season in June, and then start what Gingrich calls a ‘conversation’ about who should be the Republican nominee. That conversation, the plan goes, would lead to a brokered GOP convention at which Gingrich would emerge as the eventual nominee.

“‘Our goal first is to keep Romney well below 1,000,’ Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said an hour before Gingrich addressed a small crowd of disappointed supporters gathered at the Wynfrey Hotel. ‘It doesn’t have to be 1,000, or 1,050 — it has to be below 1,100.’ If Gingrich succeeds, Hammond continued, ‘This will be the first time in our party in modern politics that we’re going to go to the convention floor.’…

“But the Washington establishment, or more accurately the East Coast establishment, is about to declare Gingrich dead. After Tuesday’s primary, reporters from the Washington Post and New York Times were leaving the Gingrich campaign; it’s not clear how regularly the papers will cover Gingrich from now on. That’s a sign of establishment rejection that Gingrich would relish — he’s scored a lot of political points attacking the media — but the real worry is that the Gingrich campaign might slowly fade from press coverage. And then — far more ominously — those 175,000 donors might begin to lose their enthusiasm, along with their resolve to give again.”

“Former Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.) said an agreement between the candidates would be preferable to taking the fight to the convention floor in Tampa, Fla., this August.

“‘If the four candidates that are involved decide to somehow put delegates together to make somebody the nominee based on the delegates they’ve earned I don’t think I’d call that a backroom deal,’ he said. ‘A brokered convention [could] go against the wishes of all the voters and maybe pick someone who wasn’t even running. No one I know wants a brokered convention.'”

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“He insisted in his election-night speech that he was going forward — ignoring that he’s lost every one of the last 30 contests except for Georgia, his home state.

“‘Newt’s been dead for awhile, but now we’ve got proof,’ cracked Murphy.

“In a sign that Gingrich is increasingly out of options, a senior adviser to his campaign began floating the idea of a fusion ticket between the two remaining Romney alternatives.

“As we can see, Romney won roughly the same share of the vote in all four states [SC, GA, AL, MS] – something within a very narrow band of 26 percent and 30 percent of the vote. The real shift last night came from Santorum surging at the expense of Newt Gingrich.

“We can also see this when we break it down into ideological groupings, above all ‘very conservative’ voters…

“Here we see a similar pattern – Mitt Romney holding in a very narrow band (between 18 percent and 24 percent) while Rick Santorum has surged by about 15 points at the expense of Newt Gingrich, who has declined by 15 points…

“From a bigger picture, these results confirm what the RealClearPolitics average has been saying for about a month: Rick Santorum has eclipsed Newt Gingrich in the battle to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney.”

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“Some have suggested that deep in his heart Gingrich fashions himself a modern Winston Churchill, called to lead his country at a critical moment in its history. But history — using Alabama and Mississippi as its surrogates — has spoken and it has declared that Newt is decidedly not Churchill and that he won’t be president. At least not President of the United States.

“As The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis pointed out while calling for Gingrich to drop out, ‘if [Gingrich] truly believes Mitt Romney is a ‘Massachusetts moderate’ masquerading as a conservative, then he owes it to Republican voters to give former Sen. Rick Santorum a clean shot at wresting the nomination from him.’

“Tuesday night, Gingrich took the burn down the house strategy in refusing to get out. If he can’t win, he’ll torpedo Santorum’s chance of winning and intentionally or unintentionally give the nomination to his nemesis, Mitt Romney. Perhaps upon further reflection, he will put his ego aside and do the right thing by allowing the final two serious candidates standing to battle it out for the GOP nomination.”

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“In a half-filled convention center ballroom in Rosemont, a Chicago suburb, a mix of supporters and the merely curious turned out to see the candidate speak, some holding ‘Don’t believe the liberal media!’ signs, a fixture of his rallies, which on this day could have been echoing his criticism of Mitt Romney’s anointment as the inevitable nominee…

“Mr. Gingrich envisions an outcome in which, almost by force of personality and will, he is acclaimed the nominee at a contested convention in August despite failing to win the popular vote in more than a couple of states…

“‘The problem with being a fighter is sometimes they don’t know when to quit,” said Mr. Campfield, a state senator who switched allegiance to Mr. Santorum before he won Tennessee on Super Tuesday. ‘You don’t realize it’s better to bow out gracefully.'”

Very, very difficult for me to accept that you’re the same person who writes what you write on your site (your ID’s link) and then writes what you wrote earlier today on that Ann Coulter post. Remarkably split-perspectives.

Lourdes on March 15, 2012 at 12:06 AM

He didn’t write anything nasty about you on the Palin thread and you were asked by him to quote what he might have said that was so outrageous and you ran away.

Yeah! In his NY “Dime Museum”, he’d display his usual oddities like giants, General Mite, Pinheads, & Jo Jo the Dogface Boy, then get visitors to pay extra to, ahem, inspect hermaphrodites and other exotics.

As a “blowoff” (i.e. So Long, Suckers), he charged the rubes to follow the sign reading: This Way to the Great Egress! Folks weren’t generally familiar with that word for ‘Exit’, so they eagerly paid to go through a door that led them out to the filthy street behind the Museum.

To blunt anger at being duped, they were urged to tell friends to come, and to advertise that The Great Egress was the most amazing exhibit EVAH!!!

How you been doing? I take it Allah’s stern warning about staying on topic within the thread is being ignored. Hard to enforce I guess.

Bmore on March 15, 2012 at 12:10 AM

How exactly do you stay on topic on the QOTD since it’s basically an open thread?

SWalker on March 15, 2012 at 12:11 AM

Very, very difficult for me to accept that you’re the same person who writes what you write on your site (your ID’s link) and then writes what you wrote earlier today on that Ann Coulter post. Remarkably split-perspectives.

Lourdes on March 15, 2012 at 12:06 AM

He didn’t write anything nasty about you on the Palin thread and you were asked by him to quote what he might have said that was so outrageous and you ran away.

sharrukin on March 15, 2012 at 12:11 AM

Allahpundit did on the other hand make it perfectly clear that dragging disagreement and feuds from one thread to another was a bannable offense. Watch for the hammer folks, watch for the hammer.

How you been doing? I take it Allah’s stern warning about staying on topic within the thread is being ignored. Hard to enforce I guess.

Bmore on March 15, 2012 at 12:10 AM

I’m fab. Eating like a freaking king while I can still afford to. Enjoying 4 days off from work. Thought about camping, but I have too many projects going right now, most importantly getting my SKS working.

Way back in the stone ages, when I was in college (the 80′s), we had the luxury of doing internet searches, BWAHAHAHAHA… OK, we had the luxury of paying a librarian to run searches for us. I’m pretty sure my librarian hated me…

SWalker on March 15, 2012 at 12:03 AM

I don’t know where you attended college but “way back in the 80’s” when *I* was in college for the third time, I did my own searches using Medcom and a few others with respectively named ‘coms’ (one for Periodicals, one for something else, etc.).

Ahhh. I wish there were a more efficient mechanism for allowing sarcasm to come through in the comments. You see, I almost never, ever read that site since it has become so transparently biased. However it is absurd (and consequently hilarious) to claim that the Hill could cause PTSD. See?

Gotta go to the gun store tomorrow and get some shorts. Big raccoon in the back yard at night. Wish I had a laser dot on my Ruger.

Lanceman on March 15, 2012 at 12:07 AM

…a little 410 is great for them…had 5 of them stacked in the same area last winter when it was below zero for several days. Kept coming in the garage through the dog run to eat the cat food I leave for the wild cats in the area. By the time I get in the garage and they start running to the woods – four of them dropped in the same spot in 3 nights. What I didn’t know….was that they can eat each other! I was looking at the pile the next night-and there was one feasting on the pile, and the bugger ducked behind the pile for my first shot!…word must have gotten out…only cats and dogs are allowed here. No problem since! (:>)

Ahhh. I wish there were a more efficient mechanism for allowing sarcasm to come through in the comments. You see, I almost never, ever read that site since it has become so transparently biased. However it is absurd (and consequently hilarious) to claim that the Hill could cause PTSD. See?

Basically pretty good, just got back from a nice trip up thru KY, WV, MD. A little business mixed with a much needed portion of fun. Tornados and snow. Beautiful country we have. Think I’ll try to keep it. ; ) The Miss’s made up a killer gumbo and some pies and such. So I figure life is pretty darn good. You have any tunes. I mean since its an open thread and all : )

Allahpundit did on the other hand make it perfectly clear that dragging disagreement and feuds from one thread to another was a bannable offense. Watch for the hammer folks, watch for the hammer.

SWalker on March 15, 2012 at 12:14 AM

Just as I already wrote (earlier, just above), I missed any “bannable offense” “warnings” by Allahpundit, having not been reading this site too frequently in the last few months. But I respect the site, AP and Ed, and now that I’m aware of that, I’ll abide by their ‘warnings’.

Since you quoted one of my comments there, reason I’m now responding to what you wrote regards what I wrote.

Enough of this, but I’m still surprised at user duplicity. In general.

And everyone ELSE can read for themselves who writes what and where, so enough of the third-party and third-rail third-post efforts to drag me into some sort of gossip vortex.

I appreciate this site and work very hard to ignore the attacks, accusations and oftentimes imbalanced name-calling by some. But all in all, the site is a good one for reporting the news. The trick is to let those nice people here know when you appreciate them and to try to step around the rest. I don’t always succeed at the latter.

Basically pretty good, just got back from a nice trip up thru KY, WV, MD. A little business mixed with a much needed portion of fun. Tornados and snow. Beautiful country we have. Think I’ll try to keep it. ; ) The Miss’s made up a killer gumbo and some pies and such. So I figure life is pretty darn good. You have any tunes. I mean since its an open thread and all : )

Where did you visit in KY? I have family there and go to KY lakes all the time. It is most definitely a beautiful country. I plan on doing some hiking this spring and summer. Mostly midwest stuff…So. Ill., N. AR, maybe venture into CO. My bro and I are going to kayak the Catawba this fall.

He got mad at me and MadCon and a couple of others on the tolerate liberal thread. I was doing some hunting, ( Lanceman doesn’t approve, I know Lanceman.) MadCon well he was doing a little cursing. So in came Allah and Ed, actually Ed went first, then Allah. The gist was keep on topic, quit the cursing and watch how ya hunt. I already had been emailed about the hunting part before. So needless to say the breeze from that glorious hammer was a little unnerving. Any how I did help bag a couple, good day in my book. Maybe I’ll give it up. I just don’t like em. These two made death threats. I don’t like death threats. Oh well I guess I don’t need to heed Allahs warning anymore since no one else is. I try to be a relatively good poster. I don’t curse much except for heII and HeIIfire and I spell them with I’s so its really not even cursing. Kinda. I just like the hunt. You know helping them find the blessing they desire. Don’t hate me for it, please.

We were in Lexington. Its a nice small town. I liked it the folks there were real nice. You paddle? I built my wife a nice kayak for her b-day a couple back. I’m trying to gear up to build another one. I really enjoy the building. I used to paddle but I suffered an injury and had to give it up. That was hard. I like the adrenalin, a bit of a junkie that way, I guess.

I just like the hunt. You know helping them find the blessing they desire. Don’t hate me for it, please.

Bmore on March 15, 2012 at 12:35 AM

I don’t hate you, I don’t even know you, not here or elsewhere, never read comments from you before.

As I wrote earlier, I haven’t been reading this site for the last few months nor commenting only rarely up until the last few days, so…I missed anything such as you’re describing there.

Managing a website is not an easy task. I know from experience, it can easily turn even the nicest, most flexible person into the opposite and it’s very difficult in general, especially where commenting accounts are concerned.

Let me add, as a PSA to everyone, that these endless squabbles in the comments requiring hall-monitor duty from Ed and me are becoming increasingly time-consuming and irritating. We’ve erred on the side of not banning people in the past but we may have reached the point where it’s time to send those packing who can’t stay on topic and can’t seem to avoid petty scraping with the same nemeses in every thread. I’m asking you now politely to knock it off with this nonsense and stick to political arguments. The more personal you get with each other, the more we’re going to have to start locking people out to solve the problem. We don’t have time to be hall monitors.

DHChron
Dude, it would probably be faster to bait ED on his threads, this continued baiting is only gonna get other commenter mad. You really don’t like Ed do ya.
Oh and by the way a did you get more property? /

My point was that since you care absolutely nothing for what I think, it would be impossible for you to care less for what Mormons think. (Ergo: nothing from nothing leaves nothing. It is catchy, isn’t it. I also like this one. I usually only listen to classical or oldies radio because they don’t usually play anything offensive.) Is forcing me to explain my snarky comments your way of getting back at me for making them?

My point was that since you care absolutely nothing for what I think, it would be impossible for you to care less for what Mormons think. (Ergo: nothing from nothing leaves nothing. It is catchy, isn’t it. I also like this one. I usually only listen to classical or oldies radio because they don’t usually play anything offensive.) Is forcing me to explain my snarky comments your way of getting back at me for making them?

cynccook on March 15, 2012 at 12:42 AM

I like that I too, but I’ve heard it many times before.

As for whether I care what you think, I do, but you like self-created drama and imagine things that are not there. Even the “Frankly” comments are about what some anonymous posters would think, not you.

We were in Lexington. Its a nice small town. I liked it the folks there were real nice. You paddle? I built my wife a nice kayak for her b-day a couple back. I’m trying to gear up to build another one. I really enjoy the building. I used to paddle but I suffered an injury and had to give it up. That was hard. I like the adrenalin, a bit of a junkie that way, I guess.

Bmore on March 15, 2012 at 12:40 AM

I haven’t spent any time in Lexington, despite driving thru many times on my way to NC.

Not much of a paddler. I do canoe here in MO, but that is more of a party than a serious outdoors endeavor. I’d like to get more into the outdoors life though. I just recently joined the hammock camping world. I haven’t slept in a bed in over 30 days.

DHChron
Dude, it would probably be faster to bait ED on his threads, this continued baiting is only gonna get other commenter mad. You really don’t like Ed do ya.
Oh and by the way a did you get more property? /

angrymike on March 15, 2012 at 12:41 AM

good thinking Mike! I like Ed fine, he just pissed me off with the retarded mom’s basement crap. Can you say Liberal Ed? I didn’t get more property, I just have three ranches…400 acres, 300 acres, and 300 right on the Llano. Plus my kill room of course!

The first thing I did when I landed in Tel Aviv(my first time traveling abroad) was take a picture of the payphone and send it in to 2600.

And it got published!

tom daschle concerned on March 15, 2012 at 12:42 AM

So how long have you been time traveling? Hmmm, is that even a legitimate question? Can you ask a time traveler how long they have been time traveling? Wouldn’t that be a rhetorical double negative paradox?